Coconuts in Hawaiian History

The Bishop Museum in Hawaii is a wonderful place to visit if you get a chance to go to Honolulu. It's also on the Web, and they've put together some very informative pages about ancient Hawaii. Coconuts figured heavily in ancient Hawaiian society, and here are some links to some of the Bishop Museum's pages:

Here is a Bishop page on The Mauloa Canoe --- made out of a single koa tree, and "lashed with coconut cordage"...